{"id":2861,"date":"2012-02-03T06:05:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T11:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2012-02-02T21:20:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T02:20:24","slug":"resisting-race-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2012\/02\/03\/resisting-race-labels\/","title":{"rendered":"Resisting Race Labels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by rubenerd on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/52601770@N00\/5989980348\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6146\/5989980348_03e19b9688_m.jpg\" alt=\"Australian census forms\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><\/small><\/p>\n<p>An Associated Press exclusive, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2012\/01\/31\/ap-exclusive-many-resist-census-race-labels\/?cmpid=cmty_email_Gigya_AP_EXCLUSIVE%3A_Many_resist_census_race_labels\">published by Fox News<\/a>, explained that 1 in 14 people went beyond the standard race labels in the 2010 Census.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The figures show most of the write-in respondents are multiracial Americans or Hispanics, many of whom don&#8217;t believe they fit within the four government-defined categories of race: white, black, Asian\/Pacific Islander or American Indian\/Alaska Native. Because Hispanic is defined as an ethnicity and not a race, some 18 million Latinos used the &#8220;some other race&#8221; category to establish a Hispanic racial identity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Three million other write-ins came from Arabs, Middle Easterns, or others and who don\u2019t fully view themselves as \u201cwhite.\u201d\u00a0 To better understand this,\u00a0the Associated Press turned to a sociologist.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a continual problem to measure such a personal concept using a check box,&#8221; said Carolyn Liebler, a sociology professor at the University of Minnesota who specializes in demography, identity and race. &#8220;The world is changing, and more people today feel free to identify themselves however they want \u2014 whether it&#8217;s black-white, biracial, Scottish-Nigerian or American. It can create challenges whenever a set of people feel the boxes don&#8217;t fit them.&#8221;<br \/>\n<small><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though it&#8217;s personal, racial identity is also a highly political issue.\u00a0 Census data are used to distribute federal aid, draw political districts, and enforce anti-discrimination laws.\u00a0 As the number of people identifying as \u201csome other race\u201d has jumped 3.7 million in the last decade, it\u2019s clear this personal and political issue will be something Americans continue to wrestle with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Associated Press exclusive, published by Fox News, explained that 1 in 14 people went beyond the standard race labels in the 2010 Census. The figures show most of the write-in respondents are multiracial Americans or Hispanics, many of whom don&#8217;t believe they fit within the four government-defined categories of race: white, black, Asian\/Pacific Islander [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[657,39111],"class_list":["post-2861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-census","tag-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2868,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions\/2868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}